While The Wall Street Journal is considered the single
most important business newspaper, it consistently misses vital consumer news,
even with in its own article. Such is the case in the Saturday / Sunday, April
21-22, 2012 edition in a page A3 article titled "Farmers Retool to Feed
China." The article focuses on how US farmers are targeting their crops,
including powdered milk, for the China market.
Most Americans may not think about the increasing demand of
US products in China, but what we find interesting is a line that the WSJ
apparently considered as a throw-away: A lady in China is quoted as saying
"I just want something that tastes good and isn't going to hurt me."
The way Boycott Watch sees is, while Americans are buying
cheep products from China and regularly discover the foods and toys are tainted
with toxic chemicals, the Chinese want high-quality USDA tested and approved
American food. Boycott Watch wrote about how
food in China can be
tainted with toxic chemicals thus may pose long-term health problems, even
if only eating it while visiting China.
The fact that Americans want to save money while putting
their own health at risk has not been lost on the Chinese. While there is no
Chinese Food and Drug Administration, at least not to anything near US
standards, Chinese citizens are willing to spend more for high quality US
products because they know it is safe to eat.
Americans need to understand that many in China don't want to
eat their own home-grown farm foods because they do not trust their own
government food safety standards. Boycott Watch therefore asks: Why are we
Americans eating foods from farmers who won't feed dare feed it to their own
families? |
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